Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008

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Satish Jagnandan will be among the Bronx’ best handball players competing at Coney Island’s famed Seaside Handball Courts during the 48th United State Handball Association One-Wall Championships this week. Read more…

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Recognizing the importance of working with the future generation of track stars, Nike had a van come out on Tuesday, July 22, at the Truman High School track to give runners from the Zodiacs Track Team an opportunity to try out a number of the popular sneaker company’s newest styles. Read more…

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It’s Saturday afternoon and I am sitting in a hotel room in Long Beach, taking a nap after an early morning where I succeeded only slightly in getting color on this pasty white skin of mine. Read more…

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After many exasperating years satiated with obstacles from injuries to gun-bearing Dominicans, the Bronx’ Rocky Nicotina is finally living his dream as the only American invited back to play baseball for Rajo Baseball in Milan, Italy. Read more…

Bronx Times Reporter

Senator Jeff Klein helped a Morris Park woman who was severely injured in a car accident in Florida and moved back to New York, get her medical records for much needed treatments to a life-endangering condition. Read more…

Bronx Times Reporter

After much confusion last year over who was going to put up holiday lights in Morris Park’s commercial areas, the MPCA hopes to raise funds well-in advance of the holidays, ensuring commercial strips are beautified. Read more…

Bronx Times Reporter

In an effort to beautify a wide swath of the local area, the Waterbury-LaSalle Community Organization is forming a partnership with neighborhood teens affiliated with the Bronx Underground, for a clean up of graffiti in the community. Read more…

Bronx Times Reporter

A Pelham Bay woman whose grandson and former-daughter in law allegedly took out a mortgage loan in her name by forging her signature says she is nearing bankruptcy and close to being kicked out of her home because of a faulty loan. Read more…

Bronx Times Reporter

Bronx Times Reporter

After turmoil over the previous owners’ departure, a new, renamed and revitalized deli will be serving the Edgewater Park community, once again providing the quality service the neighborhood expects. Read more…

Crime

Rose Gill Hearn, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (DOI), announced the arrests of three employees and one former employee of New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Community Centers in the Bronx on charges of stealing, in separate cases, more than $10,000 paid by residents and a church for room rentals, summer camp fees and after-school program fees. Those charged worked in a range of positions at the centers, from community service aide to center director. Read more…

Crime

After a steady increase in crime has led to more drugs and guns along White Plains Road, a remediation team, in the form of approximately 30 new cops, is now making it their job to clean up the mess. Read more…

Crime

Nightlife

ITEM: Bronx bassist Eric Mauriello is working harder than ever these days. Eric started playing in the Bronx way back in the day in a band called Paradox. Today he is a busy session and touring bass player plus an up and coming independent producer. Here’s just a few of the things he is currently working on. Read more…

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To celebrate the provision of affordable healthy dietary options for patients, employees and the local community, a vine cutting event was held on July 23 to kick off the North Central Bronx Harvest Home Farmer’s Market. Located on the corner of Mosholu Parkway North and Jerome Avenue (adjacent to the Mosholu Parkway Station on the #4 line), the market will operate every Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. through mid-November and will feature a wide assortment of fresh produce from numerous regional farmers, as well as baked goods and specialty items. Read more…

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Living every child’s dream, two Bronx teens affiliated with Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC acted as official Home Run Derby “shaggers,” during the final All-Star break at Yankee Stadium last Monday, July 14. Read more…

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After Hunts Point environmental justice group Mothers on the Move, this month, announced they were filing a lawsuit against a fertilizer plant they say is making the community sick, it seems the State DEC has finally begun to take action to remedy an odor problem plaguing the community for years. Read more…

Opinion

Business

At its meeting on July 23, the City Council approved Councilman Oliver Koppell-sponsored legislation extending the boundaries of the Hunts Point Empire Zone (HPEZ) to 4821 Baldwin Street, in the Wakefield section of Koppell’s district, in order to allow the Bronx-Westchester Tempering Corporation to apply for Empire Zone NYS tax credits as an incentive for the company to site and build a glass manufacturing facility at this location. Read more…

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Visitors to Crotona Park in the Bronx will have a chance to see future Andy Roddicks, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Maria Sharapovas, and Roger Federers at the GHI Bronx Tennis Classic presented by Panasonic which takes place from Saturday, August 9 through Sunday, August 17. The tournament which is sanctioned by the USTA and organized by the New York Junior Tennis League offers $50,000 grand prizes each to the men’s and women’s winners. Read more…

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This summer, Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center located at W. 249th Street, was a proud recipient of a Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Read more…

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Year by year, Bronx residents have been taking back their streets one block at a time, using National Night Out as their platform to put all criminals on notice that they will not tolerate crime any further. Read more…

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A landscape with over 100 years of history in the trendy Mott Haven section of the south Bronx is going to be no more come 2011. But according to the Department of Transportation, traffic will be flowing better than ever as a glistening new Willis Avenue bridge rises in its place. Read more…

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Councilman James Vacca presented a New York City Council citation on Monday, July 14, to local resident Nicholas J. Tonner, who, at the tender age of 94, walks two miles nearly every day and credits his steady exercise regimen for his good health and mental agility. Read more…

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The Internal Revenue Service has put out a reminder to qualifying retirees and veterans that it is not too late to file for an economic stimulus payment and announced it will send a second set of information packets to 5.2 million people, including many in the Bronx, who may be eligible but who have not yet filed for their payment. Read more…

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A stretch of Kearney Avenue running parallel to the Bruckner Expressway has become a junkyard of sorts, with car after car totaled as out-of-control speeders crash and destroy vehicles parked along the curb. Read more…